Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2024-09-04

  1. EUCLEAK Side-Channel Attack on the YubiKey 5 Series ninjalab.io - 180 comments 489 points
  2. The Engineering of Landfills practical.engineering - 222 comments 343 points
  3. Synchronizing Pong to music with constrained optimization victortao.substack.com - 31 comments 245 points
  4. Steve Ballmer’s incorrect binary search interview question blog.jgc.org - 209 comments 233 points
  5. Why bother with argv- 0? www.wietzebeukema.nl - 217 comments 200 points
  6. Chromatone – Visual Music Language chromatone.center - 50 comments 186 points
  7. Show HN: Repaint – a WebGL based website builder repaint.com - 121 comments 180 points
  8. Mondragon as the new city-state www.elysian.press - 194 comments 160 points
  9. Show HN: Hestus – AI Copilot for CAD www.hestus.co - 69 comments 159 points
  10. Economist Eugene Fama: ‘Efficient markets is a hypothesis. It’s not reality www.ft.com - 157 comments 157 points
  11. How the Higgs field gives mass to elementary particles www.quantamagazine.org - 100 comments 153 points
  12. A photographer captures life in America’s last remaining old-growth forests www.npr.org - 44 comments 135 points
  13. Interviewing Tim Sweeney and Neal Stephenson www.matthewball.co - 68 comments 130 points
  14. OpenAI Pleads It Can’t Make Money Without Using Copyrighted Materials for Free futurism.com - 160 comments 112 points
  15. Graph Language Models aclanthology.org - 8 comments 108 points
  16. Writing a book in the age of open source blog.incrementalforgetting.tech - 78 comments 107 points
  17. Howm: Personal Wiki for Emacs github.com - 19 comments 104 points
  18. For those who hear voices, the ‘broken brain’ explanation is harmful aeon.co - 178 comments 99 points
  19. Solar will get too cheap to connect to the power grid climate.benjames.io - 138 comments 97 points
  20. Judge stops FTC from enforcing ban on non-compete agreements www.computerworld.com - 58 comments 94 points
  21. I was asked to leave an event for female founders because I had my baby with me www.businessinsider.com - 154 comments 93 points
  22. Intel: New Core Ultra Processors Deliver Breakthrough Performance www.intel.com - 94 comments 93 points
  23. Getting price-gouged by private equity in the UK’s happiest resort - 2023 www.netincome.co - 111 comments 91 points
  24. Clearview AI faces $45.6M fine in the Netherlands for ‘illegal database of faces www.cbc.ca - 59 comments 90 points
  25. Show HN: PlasCAD: Open-source plasmid editor github.com - 20 comments 88 points
  26. GitHub disabled adguard filters repository twitter.com - 33 comments 87 points
  27. Solar will get too cheap to connect to the power grid climate.benjames.io - 81 comments 85 points
  28. Keeping CALM: When distributed consistency is easy - 2019 arxiv.org - 8 comments 85 points
  29. Sony shutting down Concord, refunds after 2 week launch. 8 year dev, 25k sales arstechnica.com - 50 comments 83 points
  30. In a first, Phoenix hits 100 straight days of 100-degree heat www.washingtonpost.com - 75 comments 82 points